The agency charged with building the state’s bullet train plucked their new chief from Alstom, the French manufacturer of high-speed trains. Press release: California High-Speed Rail Authority Names New CEO: Roelof van Ark At today’s Board of Directors meeting in Sacramento, the California High-Speed Rail Authority named Roelof van Ark, [continue reading]
With working beginning Friday night to prepare the Sunset Boulevard bridge over the 405 for demolition, County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky’s website takes a deeper look at the work to come. The bridge work is part of the widening of the 405 to add a northbound carpool lane between the Santa [continue reading]
The Urban Land Institute is holding a case study panel and site tour of the recently completed Transit Oriented Development (TOD) project at Hollywood and Vine. The $600 million project – the latest product of Metro’s Joint Development Program – includes the 1600 North Vine apartments, a 305-room W Hotel, [continue reading]
View Subway route from Century City to Westwood in a larger map As planning studies continue for the Westside Subway Extension, Metro officials have scheduled a public meeting for Tuesday, May 18, to discuss how they plan to route the train between Century City and Westwood. For much of its [continue reading]
Here are the results as of 12:30 p.m. on our reader poll on the Expo Line’s color. There’s no cutoff to the voting–but the more who weigh in, the more interesting the results. Participate in the poll here.
As part of the widening of the 405 freeway to add a carpool lane through the Sepulveda Pass, the bridge that carries Sunset Boulevard over the freeway is going to soon be demolished and rebuilt — while partially remaining open to traffic. Work begins later this month. The page to [continue reading]
As the project that is officially known as the Metro Rail Exposition Corridor (MREC) to Culver City, Phase 1 – informally referred to as the Expo Line – inches towards completion, an important decision still needs to be made: what will the line be called once it’s in operation? Why [continue reading]
It was only a week ago that the Board of Directors of Metro endorsed the 30/10 Initiative to accelerate the construction of transit and highway projects funded by the Measure R sales tax increase approved by voters in 2008. And, in fact, Metro officials are already in discussions with members [continue reading]
Metro CEO Art Leahy provided an update in his daily email to staff on the planning process for the Gold Line Eastside Extension Phase 2 project, which could extend the Gold Line from East Los Angeles to either South El Monte or Whittier. Phase two is a project set to [continue reading]
The first public scoping meeting for the South Bay Green Line Extension project is tonight with three additional meetings scheduled through May 5th. The South Bay Green Line extension would be a rail alternative to the I-405 corridor and provide connections to the Blue Line and the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor [continue reading]
